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Verse Genesis 2:8. _A GARDEN EASTWARD IN EDEN_] Though the word
עדן _Eden_ signifies _pleasure_ or _delight_, it is certainly the
name of a place. See Genesis 4:16; 2 Kings 19:12;...
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8. גן _gan_ “garden, park,” παράδεισος _paradeisos_,
“an enclosed piece of ground.” עדן _‛__ēden_ “Eden,
delight.” קדם _qedem_ “fore-place, east; foretime.”
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II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
Man in Innocency before the Fall
Genesis 2:4-45
_ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_
2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7)
3. The garden of Eden...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction
is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was
formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
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The Garden in Eden
8. _a garden_ More strictly "an enclosure." LXX παράδεισον,
Lat. _paradisum_, a word borrowed from the Persian, and meaning "a
park-like enclosure." Its use here has given rise to t...
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PLANTED A GARDEN— It pleased God to provide for man, when formed, a
proper place of reception, a garden. The Hebrew word גן _gan,_ which
we render _garden,_ and frequently, _paradise,_ signifies, prop...
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PART NINE: THE BEGINNING OF SOCIETY
(Genesis 2:8-25)
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put
the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made Jehovah God to
grow ev...
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_AND THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN EASTWARD IN EDEN; AND THERE HE PUT
THE MAN WHOM HE HAD FORMED._
And the Lord God planted a garden. It is the dictate of nature for
parents to provide for their offs...
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2:8 Eden (a-8) Pleasure....
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A GARDEN] LXX renders by 'Paradeisos' (a Persian word meaning 'a
park'), hence the English 'Paradise.' EASTWARD] i.e. of Palestine,
such as Babylonia would be. EDEN] The Heb. word _eden_ means
'deligh...
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PARADISE AND THE FALL
In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual
teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is
evidently to give an answer to the question: How...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 2
GOD RESTS
V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in
them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
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EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their
original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...
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THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN. — The order followed in the text,
namely, man first and the garden afterwards, is not that of
chronology, but of precedence. In Genesis 2:15 we find that the garden
was...
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וַ יִּטַּ֞ע יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים גַּן
־בְּ עֵ֖דֶ
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THE CREATION
Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1
IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of
this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding
the order in which plan...
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MAN IN EDEN, INNOCENCE
Genesis 2:1
The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from
the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from
weariness, or exhaustion,...
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This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct
movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account.
First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed"
su...
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MAN IS DIFFERENT
Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was
different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the
earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
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And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in (f) Eden; and there he
put the man whom he had formed.
(f) This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most
pleasant and abundant in all...
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Of pleasure, Hebrew Eden, which may be either the name of a country,
as chap. iv. 16, or it may signify pleasure, in which sense Symmachus
and St. Jerome have taken it. --- From the beginning, or on t...
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
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_THE GARDEN OF EDEN_
‘And the Lord God formed man of the dust … and the Lord God
planted a garden.’
Genesis 2:7
We generally speak of our parents, Adam and Eve, when they ate the
forbidden fruit, a...
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8._And the Lord God planted _(117) Moses now adds the condition and
rule of living which were given to man. And, first, he narrates in
what part of the world he was placed, and what a happy and pleasa...
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In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion
as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a
creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
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AND THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN EASTWARD IN EDEN,.... Or "had
planted" m, for this was not now done after the formation of man, but
before; and so the word translated "eastward" may be rendered, as...
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_And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put
the man whom he had formed._
Ver. 8. _And the Lord God planted._] Had planted (to wit, on the
third day, when he made trees) for...
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_The Lord God planted_ Or, _had planted_, namely, on the third day,
when he created _the fruit-tree yielding fruit; a garden_ A place
peculiarly pleasant, a _paradise_, separated, it seems, from the r...
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1 The first Sabbath.
4 The maner of the creation.
8 The planting of the garden of Eden,
10 and the riuer thereof.
17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the
creatures.
21 T...
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And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put
the man whom He had formed. Although the entire work of creation was
perfect, God chose to do still more for man by planting an enc...
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The Garden of Eden...
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SECOND SECTION
_Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical
Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._
GENESIS 2:4-25.
A. The Earth waiting for Man.
4These are the generations [genealogies]...
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THE SEVENTH DAY
The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1.
"Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were
finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
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8-14 The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but
a garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we
seek things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approac...
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He had PLANTED, viz. on the third day, when he made the plants and
trees to grow out of the ground, a place of the choicest plants and
fruits, most beautiful and pleasant. EASTWARD, from the place whe...
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The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely,
"the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special
attention.
There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
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Genesis 2:8 LORD H3068 God H430 planted H5193 (H8799) garden H1588
eastward H6924 Eden H5731 there H8033 put...
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THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4).
‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant
(siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of
the field had yet sp...
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‘And the Lord God planted a tree-covered area (gan - possibly a
“place shaded over” i.e. by trees) in Eden, eastward, and there he
put the man whom he had formed.'
The word ‘planted' is a vivid anthr...
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MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II.
Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God
is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
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Genesis 2:8
_(with Genesis 3:22)_
I. Our first parents are discovered in a state of innocence, beauty,
and blessedness, which is broken up utterly by the transgression of
the Divine command. (1) To E...
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Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
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CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27
explained. The Edenic covenant.
CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve.
CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real
man i...
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Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought,
but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6.
Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan
Pentateuch reads, the si...
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_The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden_
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
I. IN THIS GARDEN PROVISION WAS MADE FOR THE HAPPINESS OF MAN.
1. The garden was beautiful.
2. The garden was fruitful.
3. The...
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FOUR GARDENS
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden. Genesis 2:8.
I wonder how many of you have gardens of your own I don't mean your
father's and mother's garden, but your very own lit...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:8 God provides a suitable environment for
the man by planting a GARDEN IN EDEN, IN THE EAST. The name “Eden”
suggests luxury and pleasure. It probably refers to a region much...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered
initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis
1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 2:14. East of Assyria] So Ges. and Dav. Lit., “before A.”
wh. to a writer in Pal. is = west (Fürst).
GENESIS 2:17. SURELY DIE] Heb. “die, die shalt thou;” as in
Genesis 2:16...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 2:8
In accordance with a well-known characteristic of Hebrew composition,
the writer, having carried his subject forward to a convenient place
of rest, now reverts to a point of ti...
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
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a garden. Genesis 13:10 Ezekiel 28:13 Ezekiel 31:8 Ezekiel 31:9 Joel
2:3 eas
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THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN
Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the
Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...
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Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth, and a
rational immortal soul, we have in these verses the provision that was
made for the happiness of both. That part of man, which is a...
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Was the Garden of Eden a real place or just a myth?
PROBLEM: The Bible declares that God “planted a garden eastward in
Eden” (Genesis 2:8), but there is no archaeological evidence that
any such place...